6. He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a brass javelin between his shoulders.
7. The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
8. He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
9. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”
10. The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
11. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
13. The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14. David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.
15. Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
16. The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17. Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
18. and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”
19. Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20. David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.